What are Microsoft codecs?

[sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com]

>Antonio wrote:
>
>> Totem has come a long ways and you get it whether you like it or not
>because it meets Fedora's requirements + it does not have the ability
>to play proprietary file formats by default, one has to add them
>through other repositories like rpmfusion.
>
>To my surprise, it seems those codecs exist:
>
># gst-ffmpeg
>FFmpeg-based plug-in, contains all the basic decoders for popular
>codecs, such as DivX and WMV
># Pitfdll
>Plug-ins using the Windows codec DLLs for which no free software
>implementation exists yet.
>
>http://projects.gnome.org/totem/
>
>but I can't get them at rpmfusion, at least through regular
>repositories. Some work seems to be ongoing:

That's because you haven't looked, in at least one of those cases:

[sam at samlap ~]$ yum search pitfdll
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, fastestmirror, merge-conf,
post-transaction-
              : actions, presto, refresh-packagekit, upgrade-helper,
verify
Warning: No matches found for: pitfdll
No Matches found

oh well, I don't believe it's necessary anyway...

[sam at samlap ~]$ yum info gstreamer-ffmpeg
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, fastestmirror, merge-conf,
post-transaction-
              : actions, presto, refresh-packagekit, upgrade-helper,
verify
Installed Packages
Name       : gstreamer-ffmpeg
Arch       : x86_64
Version    : 0.10.7
Release    : 2.fc11.1
Size       : 419 k
Repo       : installed
>From repo  : rpmfusion-free-updates
Summary    : GStreamer FFmpeg-based plug-ins
URL        : http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
License    : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Description: GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs
of
           : filters which operate on media data. Applications using
this
           : library can do anything from real-time sound processing to
playing
           : videos, and just about anything else media-related.  Its
           : plugin-based architecture means that new data types or
processing
           : capabilities can be added simply by installing new plugins.
           : 
           : This package provides FFmpeg-based GStreamer plug-ins.


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Sam